What I wrote there still, in my opinion, sound advice. Since then, however, after a frustrating period where I was getting flats every two or three weeks, I changed my tires to Schwalbe Marathons. In addition to being far more puncture resistant, these tires are also slightly smaller. As a a result, my bike is much easier to fold than it had been.

In spite of making my bike slightly slower, the Marathons were a worthy upgrade, all the more so because it’s easy to fold again.

Here, Off yer bike explains another workaround, this one requiring tools. But it looks pretty easy to carry out.

Today I learned about the Memrise Prize. As a mostly* happy user of Memrise, I really hope that this bears fruit.

* Many of the wordlists, even ones provided by Memrise, are deficient in numerous ways; the German wordlists lack principle parts of both nouns and verbs, for instance. Also, the iPhone app decides to log me out randomly. In spite of these complaints, I use it enough and get enough value out of it that I should start paying for it.

Caller: Dice K has this great pitch, you hear about it? It’s called the gyroball. It is like a slurve slider curve but it is faster and it curves so much that it turns around and is caught by the first baseman. I ain’t seen nothing like it.